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THE CALENDAR FOR 1906

SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st ...........6h. 07m.

6h. 39m.

1904 1905

15th ............Ch. 01m.

6h. 25m.

Maximum

..85.0

84.7

Minimum

.76.3

76.5

Mean

.80.2

80.1

MOON'S PHASES

xix

d. h.

m.

BAROMETER, 1905

Full Moon

3

7

36

A.M.

Mean

....29.88

Last Quarter

11

4

54

A.M.

New Moon

18

8

33

1904

RAINFALL

1905

P.M.

2

11

9.770 inches

3.195 inches

P.M.

First Quarter 25

DAYS OF DAYS or¦ 7 and 8

WIEK

MONTH

MOONS

Sat.

1

13

Sun.

14

Mon.

3

15

Tues.

4

16

Wed.

Б

17

Thur. 6

18

Frid.

7

19

Sat.

8

20

Sun.

9

21

Mon.

10

Tues.

Il

Wed.

12

24

Thur. 13

25

Frid. 14

2872 * 228

23

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation

stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890. 19TH AFTER TRINITY. Arrival of the 44

'Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage, 1879. Kiaochnu declared a free port, 1898. Japanese occupied Liao-yang, capturing vast stores of ammunition and provisions, 1904. Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894. Disastrous floods at Shanghai, 1904.

1902.

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864. Death of Tso Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885. Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty signed.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1869. Chinese Court left Hsianfu on the way to Peking, 1901. Assassination of Mr. McKinley, President of the U.S.A., 1901. Sir James Mackay's Treaty with China sigued, 1902. Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.

Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.

13TH AFTER TRINITY. Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859. Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen, 1883. British gunboat “Wasp' left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1887.

Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new Treaty with Japan, 1890. Japanese flagship Mikasa foundered as the result of an explosion in Sasabo harbour, "with a loss 599 men, 1905-

Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hungchang, 1876.

26 Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese

Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891.

888

Chinese transport “Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887.

Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1891.

14TH AFTER TRINITY. New Convention between Germany and China ratifled at Peking, 1881 The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five

vessels, 1894.

Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Loss in Kii Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish frigate “Ertogrul,' "with 567 lives, 1890. Count von Waldersee, Allied Generalissimo, reached Hongkong, 1900,

Sat.

15

27

Sun.

16

28

Mon. 17

29

Tues. 18

1

'Wed.

Thur. 20 Frid. 21

Sat. 92

Sun. 23

ជនគ

19

2

Riots at Kumchuk, Kwangtung, 1900.

4

Count von Waldersee reached Shanghai, 1900.

5

Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.

6

Mon. 24

7

Tues. 25

Wed. 26

9

Thur. 27

10

Frid.

28

11

Sat.

29

12

Sun.

30

13

15th after TrișITY. U. 8. brig “Lubra” taken by pirates, 1866. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao, many thousands of lives lost, 1874. Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association inaugurated 1904. H.M.S.

"Rattler" lost off Japan, 1868. Piratical attack on the German barque "Apenrade," near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed 1877. Bomb thrown at Chinese Commissioners when about to leave Peking for Europe, 1905, Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok Street, Hongkong, by armed robbers,

1878. Arrival of Governor Sir Henry A. Blake in Hongkong, 1898. Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840,

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon.

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.

Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1865. 10TH AFTER TRINITY. All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841. S. 8. Hiiesho

Bank after striking a mineiu Pechili Galf, 1905,